Harcourt: Edward Kynaston played female roles in the 1660s.

The male leads Horner and Harcourt were played by the contrasted actors Charles Hart and Edward Kynaston ( or Kenaston ).

The Houston Grand Opera has announced that a new opera by Floyd will be premiered in the coming seasons, Kynaston, after the 17th-century actor, Edward Kynaston.

# Kynaston, Edward, A Man on Edge: A life of Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, Allen Lane, London ; Ringwood, 1981

Edward Kynaston ( c. 1640 – January 1712 ) was an English actor, one of the last Restoration " boy players ", young male actors who played women's roles.

* Mezzotint of Edward Kynaston ( PeoplePlay UK )

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The original 1670 production by the King's Company featured Edward Kynaston as " Mahomet Boabdelin, last King of Granada ," Charles Hart as Almanzor, Nell Gwyn as Alimahide, Rebecca Marshall as Lyndaraxa, Elizabeth Boutell as Bezayda, Michael Mohun as Abdemelech, William Cartwright as Abenamar, and William Wintershall as Selin.

Kynaston was born at Oteley Park, near Ellesmere, Shropshire, the eldest son of Sir Edward Kynaston and his wife Isabel Bagenall, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bagenall.

* Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, known as " JEK ", British cricketer and businessman.

William Wintershall played Polydamas, Edward Kynaston was Leonidas, Michael Mohun was Rhodophil, and Nicholas Burt was Palamede ; the role of Hermogenes was taken by William Cartwright the younger.

Edward Kynaston, whose roles included the title role in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and Evadne in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, was one of the last of the era's boy players.

In addition to Gwyn, the original 1669 production by the King's Company featured Margaret Hughes as St. Catherine, Michael Mohun as Maximus, Charles Hart as Porphyrius, Rebecca Marshall as Berenice, William Cartwright as Apollonius, and Edward Kynaston as Placidius.

The famous Studd brothers, Sir John Edward Kynaston, George ( GB ) and Charles ( CT ), were Victorian gentleman cricketers ; they were educated at Eton and Cambridge.

Kynaston, George and CT were still at Eton when their father, Edward Studd, became a born-again Christian and they were far from pleased by his efforts to interest them in the gospel.

Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet OBE ( 26 July 1858 – 14 January 1944 ), known as " JEK ", was a British cricketer, businessman and Lord Mayor of London.

Children of Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Bt.

The premiere production by the King's Company featured Charles Hart in the title role, Michael Mohun as the Old Emperor, Edward Kynaston as Morat, William Wintershall as Arimant, Anne Marshall as the Empress Nourmahal, and Elizabeth Cox as Indamora.

* Kynaston Studd (' JEK ' Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, OBE )-the eldest brother, Cricketer and Lord Mayor of London, born 26 July 1858 Tidworth, Netheravon, Wiltshire and died 14 January 1944.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral ( d. 1761 )

* 1350 – Battle of Winchelsea ( or Les Espagnols sur Mer ): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

* 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet ( d. 1929 )

* 1863 – Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician ( d. 1940 )

Notable 18th-century autobiographies in English include those of Edward Gibbon and Benjamin Franklin.

During the English Reformation the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under Henry VIII and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I.

* 1965 – Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1892 )

* 1862 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician ( d. 1933 )

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

The original book, published in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

According to Edward Barlow, a captain employed by the English East India Company, Kidd attacked a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman, and was repelled.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

* 1989 – Edward Underdown, English actor ( b. 1908 )